Doc 1: Source: Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden: The United States & The Philippine Islands, 1899." Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1929). The poem is about the Philippine-American War (1899–1902), which urges the United States to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country. [modified] Take up the White Man's burden- Send forth the best ye breed- Go send your sons to exile To serve your captives' need To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child Take up the White Man's burden- And reap his old reward: The blame of those ye better The hate of those ye guard- The cry of hosts ye humor (Ah slowly) to the light: "Why brought ye us from bondage, "Our loved Egyptian night?"
Doc 1: Source: Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden: The United States & The Philippine Islands, 1899." Rudyard Kipling's Verse: Definitive Edition (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1929). The poem is about the Philippine-American War (1899–1902), which urges the United States to assume colonial control of the Filipino people and their country. [modified] Take up the White Man's burden- Send forth the best ye breed- Go send your sons to exile To serve your captives' need To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild- Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child Take up the White Man's burden- And reap his old reward: The blame of those ye better The hate of those ye guard- The cry of hosts ye humor (Ah slowly) to the light: "Why brought ye us from bondage, "Our loved Egyptian night?"
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